Before production even began, the 35-year-old was getting comments that, he argued, should never have been taken too seriously.

"I went to get coffee and I had a black T-shirt and a pair of blue jeans on and somebody was like, ‘Oh look, he's not even wearing the right Steve Jobs shoes and that's not the right shirt and that's not even a turtleneck,'" Kutcher recalled. "I was getting blown up and criticized before we even started."

The initial feedback allowed director Joshua Michael Stern, Kutcher and his costars to tell the story of Apple's cofounder and former CEO from their own perspective.

"It was our interpretation of events that we weren't in the room, we weren't there," Kutcher said. "We weren't sitting there when things happened."